Scientists working at the Wuhan lab confessed to being bitten by COVID-19 infected bats in a cave while collecting samples.

The United States, which has accused China of hiding the extent of its initial outbreak a year ago, has called for a \"transparent\" WHO-led investigation and criticised the terms of the visit

The National Health Commission, which announced the arrival date, delayed from its early January schedule, did not detail the team's itinerary, however

US, UK warn Moderna, Pfizer vaccine may cause fever, weak immunity Debates continue in India whether the two COVID-19 vaccines that got emergency use authorisation from the country's drug regulator recently are safe and efficacious. The fact sheets for vaccine recipients in US and UK for Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines say the vaccines are yet to be fully approved. Moderna's fact sheet for recipients says its vaccine is unapproved and 'may prevent COVID-19'. The UK government says it h...

WHO's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was not pleased with China's blockage. He expressed his dismay in a statement and urged China to allow the WHO team to enter the country

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The woman managed to board a Vishakhapatnam-bound special train along with her son from New Delhi after having tested COVID-19 positive on December 22

Around 4.4 per cent of those tested were found to have specific antibodies that are capable of fighting off the pathogen that causes coronavirus. This indicates that they might have been infected sometime in the past

A Chinese court handed down a four-year jail term on Monday to Zhang Zhan, who reported at the peak of the crisis in the city where the coronavirus first emerged

Zhang has denied all the charges levied against her and has stated that all her reports regarding the COVID-19 outbreak response were based on first-hand accounts of citizens of Wuhan

The year 2020 will go down in history as an extraordinary year of the century. The whole world was brought to its knees due to the coronavirus which originated in Wuhan, China last year. The outbreak had the world battling severe crises on almost all fronts; socially, economically, health amongst others. The situation is yet not over for us with the emergence of a new COVID-19 strain. Here are ten lessons that the year 2020 leaves us with. Watch the video for more.

Chen Bei, deputy secretary-general of the Beijing municipal government, said in order to reduce the clustering of people, Beijing will strictly review applications for holding major events, and not organise big gatherings such as sports events or temple fairs

China has strongly opposed calls for an international inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus, saying such calls are anti-China, but has been open to a WHO-led investigation

As per a report, companies where alleged Communist Party of China's members are working as employees are Pfizer and AstraZeneca, ANZ, HSBC, Boeing and Volkswagen

WHO's top emergency expert Mike Ryan also cautioned against complacency in the wake of vaccine roll-out, adding although they were a major part of the battle against COVID-19, vaccines would not on their own end the pandemic

A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences argued the virus likely originated in India in the summer of 2019 -- jumping from animals to humans via contaminated water.

China is pushing a narrative via state media that the virus existed abroad before it was discovered in the central city of Wuhan